Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/15/2011 11:15 AM, James Masson wrote: I wouldn't use Raid5/6 take a look at these NFS stats - my VM hosting workload is 90% write. For my everyday VM workloads, the only time there are significant reads from the VM shared storage is at VM boot time, and even then, the VM host and storag

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/15/2011 07:15 AM, Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 08:29 PM, yvette hirth wrote: Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm particularly worried about the networking side being a bottleneck for the setup. I was looking into 10gbit and infiniband equipmen

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/15/2011 04:07 AM, Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a drbd setup for this purpose. What I am currently planni

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread James Masson
I wouldn't use Raid5/6 take a look at these NFS stats - my VM hosting workload is 90% write. For my everyday VM workloads, the only time there are significant reads from the VM shared storage is at VM boot time, and even then, the VM host and storage server have a significant parts of the VM d

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-15 Thread James Masson
We built our own setup for similar VM storage workloads, based on a dozen Thecus rackmount SATA arrays using a custom load of Fedora 12. 1.5Tb Samsung or Seagate SATA disks. 8 disk software raid 10, dual bonded Gig dedicated to DRBD and heartbeat, serving NFS and iSCSI over Gig. The hardware/d

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Zaeem Arshad
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Mike Lovell wrote: > On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >> I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for >> virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a >> drbd setup for this purpose. >> >>

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn schrieb: > ... > I'm particularly worried about the networking side being a bottleneck for > the setup. I was looking into 10gbit and infiniband equipment but they > drive the cost up quite a bit and I'm not sure if they are necessary if I > can bond several 1gbit interfac

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Hawkins
- Original Message - > On 02/14/2011 08:29 PM, yvette hirth wrote: > > Mike Lovell wrote: > > > >> On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > for just a 2 server set up, switches aren't needed. at least not for > 10gig-e. the 10gig-e nics i tried could just be used with a cable

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Lovell
On 02/14/2011 08:29 PM, yvette hirth wrote: Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm particularly worried about the networking side being a bottleneck for the setup. I was looking into 10gbit and infiniband equipment but they drive the cost up quite a bit an

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread yvette hirth
Mike Lovell wrote: On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm particularly worried about the networking side being a bottleneck for the setup. I was looking into 10gbit and infiniband equipment but they drive the cost up quite a bit and I'm not sure if they are necessary if I ca

Re: [DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Lovell
On 02/14/2011 12:59 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a drbd setup for this purpose. What I am currently planning to implement is this: 2 Storage 8-bay n

[DRBD-user] Decent shared storage setup for virtualization

2011-02-14 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
I'm trying to wrap my head around storage setups that might work for virtualization and I wonder if people here have experience with creating a drbd setup for this purpose. What I am currently planning to implement is this: 2 Storage 8-bay nodes with 8gb RAM and a dual-core Xeon processor. Each